Modern China

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As contemporary posters created in the “Chinese Dream” campaign vividly
show, the connection between the past and the present sits at the center of any
attempt to understand China and its role in the world. Modern China surveys
modern Chinese history from 1600 to present. Time will be devoted to each of
the three major periods into which modern Chinese history is conventionally
divided: the Imperial Era (1600-1911), the Republican Era (1911-1949), and
the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). It guides students through
pivotal events in modern Chinese history, and uncovers the origins of China’s
painful transition from a powerful early modern empire to a country torn by
civil unrest and imperialist invasion, and then from a vanguard of world
revolution to a post-communist party-state whose global power is on the rise.